ELA Curriculum Writer

About CommonLit: CommonLit is an award-winning, high-growth nonprofit education technology organization on an uncompromised mission to ensure that all students—especially those in traditionally underserved Title I schools—graduate with the critical reading, writing, communication, and analytical problem-solving skills necessary for modern university and career success. Operating an advanced open-access digital reading program utilized across 90,000 American schools by millions of active learners and instructors, CommonLit balances learning-science frameworks with robust cloud instrumentation. Backed by top-tier institutional advocates, we build cross-functional print and digital literacy systems that make a world-class humanities education accessible everywhere.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly autonomous, systems-fluent, and development-oriented ELA Curriculum Writer to design, author, and audit high-leverage literary content, rigorous unit plans, and supplemental learning frameworks under a permanent, full-time remote configuration within the United States. Operating as an essential anchor inside our Academic division, you will collaborate tightly alongside curriculum, assessment, and product management cells to scale our nationwide digital library footprint. Shifting completely away from non-regulated administrative transcription logs, entry-level styling modifications, or basic support ticketing queues, you will operate an active multi-tiered curriculum design, textual rigor analysis, and common-core metrics validation laboratory. This role balances deep academic authorship with cross-functional technical synchronization, requiring 5+ years of verified classroom instructional history. This position requires an educational veteran who handles complex instructional layers fluidly natively using Course Creator, Technical Writer, and Research primitives, applies rigorous college- and career-readiness standards with precision, and maneuvers iterative, feedback-driven project pipelines independently.

Key Responsibilities

• Curriculum Strategy Governance: Structure, map, and author rigorous, high-quality English Language Arts academic content and lesson units that align perfectly with CommonLit’s standards for deep textual analysis natively utilizing Course Creator best practices.
• Textual Rigor & Resource Curation: Source, audit, and curate diverse contemporary literature, supplemental articles, and educational materials that exhibit outstanding rigor, instructional value, and relevance for Title I school systems natively deploying Research methods.
• Peer Review Quality Control: Lead multi-tiered internal evaluation loops and peer reviews across all submitted unit assets, auditing data sets for absolute standard alignment and core design harmony.
• Cross-Functional Content Creation: Author and iterate comprehensive instructional prompts, analytical writing assessments, and scoring rubrics across digital and print mediums natively leveraging Technical Writer workflows.
• Asynchronous Workflow Optimization: Manage multiple concurrent content development pipelines, prioritizing shifting deadlines with meticulous attention to detail within a fast-moving startup environment.
• Iterative Design Traversal: Navigate complex, multi-sourced feedback streams from academic directors and product specialists, generating multiple drafts and structural fixes with a growth-focused mindset.
• Ecosystem Feedback Integration: Synthesize frontline instructional bottlenecks and district deployment challenges to continuously optimize curriculum clarity and reduce friction for teachers and students.
• Remote Cross-Team Collaboration: Coordinate seamlessly from a stationary desk setup alongside distributed Product and Professional Development squads, matching operations from 9 AM to 5 PM EST.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ completed years of professional, successful classroom teaching experience inside K-12, secondary, or collegiate environments.
• Possess a formal Bachelor’s degree or higher in English, History, or a closely related Humanities discipline.
• Expert Standards & Literacy Command: Meticulous practical experience implementing college- and career-readiness benchmarks alongside an in-depth understanding of evidence-based English Language Arts instructional methods.
• Demonstrated professional or lived experience working alongside, supporting, or executing initiatives within communities of color.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and textual analytical communication strengths in English, with an established background delivering highly structured documentation and accepting critical revisions confidently.
• Schedule & Jurisdiction Context: Position operates under remote parameters open exclusively to qualified curriculum authors based inside the United States with full operational availability to match fixed **9 AM — 5 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)** hours.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior platform or consulting history writing digital, multi-tiered district-wide curricula explicitly inside the educational technology (EdTech), scalable publishing, K-12 supplemental learning, or adaptive instruction fields.
• Deep familiarity with contemporary diverse literature, modern learning trends, and the operational challenges of rolling out software platforms across massive public school districts.
• An adaptable, systems-oriented persona characterized by deep intellectual humility, exceptional self-management capacities, and an active passion for unlocking student engagement.

What We Offer

• Premium United States EdTech Curriculum Leadership Remuneration: A competitive annual target cash base salary of $80,000 — $100,000 USD, calibrated precisely to your individual instructional history and content generation velocity.
• 100% remote workspace infrastructure freedom available across nearly 30 states and Washington, D.C., supplemented by a dedicated home office set-up stipend.
• Venture Scale Educational Impact: Elite professional checkpoints achieved by single-handedly blueprinting the reading, writing, and analytical units powering over 90,000 American schools.
• Comprehensive physical well-being protection, providing premium medical, dental, and vision group insurance choices.
• Access to uncompromised health and financial alignment setups, including HSA/FSA choices (Medical, Limited, and Dependent Care), company-sponsored basic life insurance, legal protection insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% safe harbor employer match, 16 paid organizational holidays, generous sick leave, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, flexible work vectors, and structural low-stress operational weeks around Thanksgiving and late December.